Summary
Michael Navarro is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of software and fintech experience, currently leading engineering groups at Klarna from Los Angeles. He has built and scaled customer-facing banking products—driving initiatives like Klarna Bank Account, Savings Account, an Open Banking API for PSD2 in Germany, and app-level strong customer authentication. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer (React Native and web) and a people leader, he manages ~30 engineers and engineering managers to deliver complex, regulated payment flows. His background combines an NYU Stern degree in Information Systems and Finance with early web engineering and consultancy roles, giving him an unusual blend of product-thinking, compliance-savvy architecture, and delivery focus.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Finance, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Finance at NYU Stern School of Business
English